Twenty-three illustrations take you through the process of enhancing your visiual skills while creating a cartoon drawing of a starfish named Starr Fish. Various beginner drawing skills are utilized including sketching accurate proportions, combining lines to make shapes, and adding details with lines and circular shapes.

Jerome Okutho's insight:

If you want to improve your cartoon drawings, you have to be able to use your imagination as well as have some understanding of proportions. This tutorial covers everything you need to know about drawing a cartoon starfish from scratch, as well as creating positive and negative space in your drawings.

"What is a cartoon without any kind of action? What is a cartoon, that doesn’t tell us a story? You may have seen artistic studies of the human body, drawn from a live model for reference. They work very well for understanding how anatomy and muscles react when we suggest a move. But the sentiment behind this movement is not clear! It’s just a reproduction of real life and nothing more.

The way to express movement and action in a cartoon style drawing is quite different from real life. Therefore, beyond the necessary knowledge to build your character’s body, mastering the techniques needed to add life to these forms is essential. And that’s what we’ll talk about in this tutorial!"

Jerome Okutho's insight:

There are several techniques cartoonists can use to add movement and action to characters. This tutorial shows you a few of those tips while walking you through the process of adding the appearance of action to your illustrations.

"If you are drawing a comic strip or a cartoon that uses the same character over and over, you are going to want to keep continuity within all the frames. The way to do this is to make sure that each character keeps the same facial proportions, no matter what position there head is in."

Jerome Okutho's insight:

This tutorial shows you how to draw cartoon faces from every angle and position without changing facial proportions. The tips in this article can be applied to all types of cartoon characters, whether human or animal.

"An insight into my mind as I go from sketch to vector illustration. This is how I do it, but every illustrator has a different technique. So use this article/tutorial as a guide to help you establish your own technique."

Jerome Okutho's insight:

Ifyou're a graphicdesignerorcomicbookartist, thistutorial will be veryuseful to you. Itshowsyouhow to turn your pencildrawnsketches into vector illustrationsusing Adobe Illustrator. Thetipshere can be used by all vector artists.

This video is a comprehensive and easy to understand tutorial on how to draw a woman character. Very useful for 2D design, 3D animation, game design and fashion design students.

Jerome Okutho's insight:

Ifyouwork in a creativejobsuch as an animator or video gameartist, thenyouprobablyknowthat sketching characters is allpart of theprocess. This 6-step tutorial will showyouexactlyhow to draw a womancharacterfor your futureprojects.

Most of thetime, you'll be sketchingdrawingsusingonly your imaginationrather than a referenceimage. Forexperiencedartists, this is something that comesalmostnaturally. However, ifyou'rejust a beginnerartist, drawing from your imagination can be quite a task. Luckily, this tutorial from the Visual college of artanddesign in Vancouver, does a goodjob of explaininghow to getcreative with your ideasandsketch them into reality.

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